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Numerals or figures are the glyphs in a typeface that represent numbers. In many fonts, it’s possible to select different kinds of numerals intended for different uses.

![The four flavors of numerals, shown with backgrounds to highlight their different widths, each followed by an example of how different they appear when used in body copy.](images/thumbnail.svg)

Numerals can either be “lining” (uppercase-like), or “oldstyle” (lowercase-like), or “proportional” (with varying character width), or “tabular” (with a unified character width, a la monospaced type). Therefore, there are effectively four flavors of numeral. Explore them at length in our article, “Understanding numerals”.